Report on the Relocation of a High-Altitude Find from Northwestern Argentina: The So-Called "Quilmes Mummy".west: the so-called “mummy of the Quilmes”
This paper reports on the relocation and study of a high-altitude burial from the Inca period, extracted in the 1920s from the Nevado de Chuscha (Salta, Argentina). Known as the "Quilmes Mummy," the assemblage—including the mummified body of a young woman, her clothing, and grave goods—had...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos. UA CONICET
1995
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/comechingonia/article/view/27634 |
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| Sumario: | This paper reports on the relocation and study of a high-altitude burial from the Inca period, extracted in the 1920s from the Nevado de Chuscha (Salta, Argentina). Known as the "Quilmes Mummy," the assemblage—including the mummified body of a young woman, her clothing, and grave goods—had a history of violent extraction and illegal trafficking. Its trajectory is reconstructed, an updated description of the find is provided, and its cultural attribution is discussed, proposing it as an atypical Inca human sacrifice (capacocha) due to the age and sex of the victim. |
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